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Use houmatoday's Parade Tracker to follow the parade's progress through Houma. The marker indicates the head of the parade. If the embed does not work on your device, please use this link: http ...
East Houma route: Starts at James Road near the Houma-Terrebonne Airport and heads down Grand Caillou Road. The parade turns right onto North Van Avenue and merges onto Howard Avenue.
Houma-Thibodaux's Mardi Gras parade season enters its second weekend Friday evening, with Fat Tuesday itself just a few days away. Terrebonne Parish officials will meet to discuss the weather ...
Houma hosts a significant Mardi Gras celebration of ten parades, two of which roll on Mardi Gras day, and the others on the two weekends preceding the big day. King Houmas rules on Fat Tuesday itself. Law enforcement officials estimated that in 2008, more than 150,000 people lined the route of his parade.
The annual celebration begins with a Cleopatra pre-parade and ends with the post-parade, Cleo Jubilee. In between the pre and post-parade events, the parade travels down the Uptown parade route on St. Charles Avenue. Other Krewe of Cleopatra events during the year include a Rendezvous Ball in January, as well as a Masquerade Gala in September.
The banks of Bayou St. John are an important meeting place for the downtown Mardi Gras Indian tribes for their "Super Sunday" parade after Carnival. Officially opened in 2015, the Lafitte Greenway now runs along the corridor previously occupied by the Carondelet Canal, with a prominent roundabout at the foot of the Bayou.
Good Earth Transit is Houma's parish bus system. [32] It has five major routes and serves the surrounding suburban areas, including the small bayou communities and the city of Thibodaux. [33] Houma relies mainly on roads and personal vehicles as the main form of transportation. The major roads in Houma are: US Route 90 (Future I-49) LA HWY 311
A parade-goer, Harry Brown, alleged that Naquin attempted to get his 12-year-old daughter's email address. The Terrebonne Parish Sheriff's Office charged him, and Naquin pled no contest and paid ...